How a young Afghan entrepreneur set up a thriving food business in the world’s worst country to be female
Three years ago, as the Taliban regime set about imposing ever tighter restrictions on women’s freedoms, Mahroo decided to throw...
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Taliban forces using electric shocks on Afghan women over dress
Taliban forces are administering electric shocks to women over breaches of a hijab mandate so strict it even requires them...
ICC issues warrant for Taliban’s supreme leader for persecution of women
The international criminal court has issued arrest warrants for two senior Taliban leaders, accusing them of crimes against humanity for the persecution...
‘Obsessed with revenge’: The Afghan women trapped with abusers they tried to stop
Six years ago, Saeeda* defied the norms of her traditional Afghan community and ran away from home to marry a...
How Afghanistan’s education ban has shattered the lives of rural women
When Lina* became one of the few girls from her district in rural Afghanistan to win a place at university,...
From a child sold to a mother on the brink of selling her own
Her cracked lips seemed to scream the wounds of her life. Blood seeped from the fissures in her parched skin,...
‘No one will take the side of a woman alone’ – one Afghan widow’s desperate fight for her children
But if life was hard before 2021, that was nothing compared to what Hadia faces now. As well as being...
‘No matter the cost’ – Afghanistan’s secret schools survive against the odds
Mahnaz was just 15 when the Taliban returned to power and brought in a blanket ban on older girls attending...
‘A market in name only’ – Taliban’s broken promises stifle female entrepreneurship in Afghanistan
Adiba set up her shop in a market in the city of Mazar-e-Sharif that the Taliban set up for women...
How ordinary men became unpaid Taliban enforcers in their own homes
To be a father of daughters in the Taliban’s Afghanistan has become a daily nightmare for Amir. Now, he says, he is...
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